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This episode is a deep dive deep into the realms of spirituality and intuition! I’m joined by renowned intuitive medium, Colette Baron Reid, to explore the profound connection between our waking consciousness and spiritual insights. Our conversation will help you unlock your inner oracle—your internal source of wisdom and guidance.

You’ll learn:

  • Why waking dreams are more important than nighttime dreams for intuitive hits.
  • Practical ways to enhance your spiritual connection and intuition.
  • The beautiful guidance I receive when Colette gives me an Oracle card reading (the insights are applicable to us all).
  • The importance of nurturing our “hungry hearts” and discovering joy, even in difficult times.

Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, this episode beautifully illustrates how spiritual practices can help us reconnect with our intuition and find meaning in life’s challenges and inspirations.

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This podcast is intended to educate, inspire, and support you on your personal journey towards inner peace. I am not a psychologist or a medical doctor and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering from any psychological or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

dear gabby #256 Apr 14, 2025 manifesting

unlock your inner oracle: intuition & manifesting | big talk with colette baron reid

[00:00:00] The following podcast is a dear media production.

Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host Gabby Bernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started.

Welcome back to Dear Gabby. In this episode, we're revisiting this pretty mind blowing conversation that I had with my very close friend and legendary Medium and Oracle Colette Baron Reed. We had this conversation back in 2023, and I started listening to it when I was going through my archives and I was like, holy shit, we have to replay this because this is where we're at right now. People are needing this message more than ever. And in the episode we talk about the difference between waking dreams and night dreams, and how our waking dreams can bring us closer to spirit and our inner oracle. This episode is all about [00:01:00] pulling Oracle cards, affirmation cards.

We're gonna use my card deck from Dear Gabby, we're gonna use my Gabby coaching app cards. We're gonna use a card deck for my super attractor card deck, and we're gonna teach you how to pull these cards. So this is the first card I pulled for you today. Believing in spiritual guidance gives me certainty and the freedom to keep dreaming even when I can't see the results.

Okay. What does this mean to me? This means a lot to me. This is all about the connection that we have to the universal energy of love that was within us. That's around us, that's supporting us and guiding us. And here's the story. I was feeling pretty out of alignment the beginning of 2025, and I was sort of just overworked over overcooked a little bit and started to realize that what was missing most was my spiritual connection.

And so not that I disconnected, it wasn't like I wasn't meditating, it wasn't like I wasn't praying, but I wasn't deeply in the [00:02:00] devotional practice that I'd kind of grown to rely on. It's easy to get pulled out when we get busy. When we get stressed. Then I created something for myself. I made myself a 21 day trust the universe practice, and I, I made it for myself first, and then I made it for my Gabby coaching members.

And so I put together 21 days of meditations and prayers and practices and faith statements and universe box like visualization meditations where you can surrender your desires into your universe box, and just these incredible practices. I'm on day 11 right now. I'm taking it slowly. I'm skipping some days in between.

Just gonna wanna marinate in some days. I'm on day 11 right now. When I tell you my life has radically upleveled. Upleveled in the most insane ways, not just because of the things that I'm attracting and manifesting, which is, it's like off the cards people, but it's upleveling from the perspective of my certainty.

Just like this card says, believing in spiritual guidance gives me certainty and freedom to keep [00:03:00] dreaming even when I can't yet see the result. So I have this, these lots of big dreams, lots of big. Desires, lots of of commitment to the world of how I wanna show up, what I wanna do, how I wanna give, and I need a lot of support to do that.

And I've just felt that support from the universe hit me tenfold, like invisible wings just behind me guiding me, showing me where to go and what to do. And my life is just kind of turning upside down in this moment in the most radical way because I've just realigned in. Such a deep dive realignment.

And so maybe you're a spiritual student. Maybe you listen to, dear Gabby, maybe you have a spiritual practice of your own, but you wanna just uplevel it. Or maybe you're stuck in fear and you wanna transform that fear into faith, or you're looking for that divine guidance and. Spiritual connection and purpose and just inner wisdom.

God, I hope you join me. It's at the Gabby coaching app. You can go to dear gabby.com/universe and you can take yourself through this 21 day Trust the Universe Challenge. I'm like the best user generated content right now because I'm [00:04:00] literally like this thing is blowing my mind every day. I get on the phone with Jessica, my chief of staff, and we're like the universe.

The challenge is upleveling us. It's crazy, you guys, if I, if you only knew, like from, from parking spots to hotel upgrades, to, to having an idea and then having it just pop into my life. But most importantly, not just all the manifestations, but most importantly, the feeling, this, just the realignment with the universe, the feeling of connection, the feeling of support, the feeling of love is, uh, just, it's just priceless.

I'm so happy I'm doing this, and if you wanna join me, go to dear gabby.com/universe. To join me inside the Trust the Universe Challenge. Just one day at a time. I'm gonna guide you through this experience of feeling into that relationship to the universe, strengthening that faith. If you're a Gabby coaching member, you already have it in your app, so don't go looking for this.

If you're not a Gabby coaching member, just go try the 21 day challenge. It's like a great way to dip your toe in. Let me be your coach. I'm your spiritual coach. Just one day at a time. And somebody wrote [00:05:00] to me about the challenge. She said, dearest Gabby, I'm doing the challenge currently and it's a game changer for me.

I've been living my whole life with fear. Thanks to this challenge. I now choose faith and love. So good. If you love my book, the universe has your back. Just a lot of the messages in this challenge are based on those principles from the universe as your back. So if you wanna go get a deep dive connection to the universe.

Jump in. Join me dear gabby.com/universe. And now let's strengthen your connection to the Divine. With this beautiful podcast with Colette Baron Reed, we talk about how to use your angel cards, how to use your messages from Oracle decks or cards, or your Gabby coaching affirmations, however you use cards in your life, and start learning how to make that connection to spirit now.

Okay? Okay. This is fucking crazy. This is. Crazy. So ready for this Colette? Sure. [00:06:00] We had a vision today. Josh really was my vision. I brought it to Josh. He loved the vision. It became our vision to make this episode about how we connect his spirit through dreams. Oh no. And then Colette hands me this new deck of hers.

It's an Oracle deck, and I look down. It is right. We're right where we're about to record. The dream weavers oracle. Holy, holy ba mag. Yes. Holy ba. Bologna. That, no, I'm not even kidding. I speaking you. And I have the craziest synchronicity, though we have such extraordinary, we don't each other for a long time, but then we have these weird things and it's like, oh my God.

And then we. Yeah, it's, it's, that doesn't surprise me at all. Wow. So tell me, does this dream weaver's Oracle all about connecting to spirit and how it relates to your dreams? Yes and no because it depends on when you call, what you call a dream. So this is about how we dream the world into being. Mm-hmm.

And, and so I had [00:07:00] a vision of these. Freaky creatures in another realm that existed before time and before the cosmos, and that they were here helping us weave the world into being that they were these weavers and that there's this cause Weavers Loom. Yeah, dream weavers. And they're called the Dream weavers.

And when I originally saw it, I saw them like on a cave drawing so that I had discovered a cave in my, in my dreams. So yes, I dreamt this deck into being, and it is about. Though the weaving of our dreams, not the dreams that we have when we're asleep, but the dreams of our destiny that we're gifted with really at birth and for the rest of our lives.

So yeah. I miss freaking out. I'm freaking out. Okay, so let's just back up for one second. 'cause I also really want you to use the deck on me. Okay. This is a super selfish Gabby moment. Okay. I want my dream weaver, Oracle reading live on the show. Okay? But what I wanna start with is. My intention, my hit, and this, I got this [00:08:00] like in a daydream yesterday.

Yeah, my hit was, okay. Let me ask Colette about how spirit connects to us in our dreams and how we can interpret the messages from our dreams. Sometimes, maybe not always 'cause it could be subconscious, repressed things that come through in dreams, but I think spirit reveals. Themself in dreams, and I wanna hear your take on that.

Yeah. So for me, I think the spirit reveals its consciousness through us, through our waking dreams and in our sleep. I think that we work things out symbolically. Okay. So yes, we can. We can discover symbols, et cetera, and metaphors in our dreams, it's like one big giant oracle at times. Other times, we're working something out that we can't deal with in a day-to-day basis.

Right. I look at us being an waking dream, and so for me, the concept of the dream is that we are dreaming this world into being right now, you and I, you dreamt this podcast into being, you dreamt your books, right? These were the inspired hits that you have that. [00:09:00] Came to you. I feel daydreams are more powerful than the dreams that we have when we're asleep at night.

Yeah, those that like the daydream. So when we think about spirit on tap, because Spirit is on tap all the time, we have a tendency to forget that we are spirit first, human second, or that we even have a relationship that's dynamic with spirit or source capital. Can I you to explain that? So we'll come, so why don't we explain that?

Yeah, explain that. So what is spirit first? Human second. I know what you mean, but they don't. Spirit is. The higher power spirit. So when we are born, we are spiritual beings first that take on a form. So the universe, spirit, God, whatever you wanna call that higher power, that consciousness with a big capital C, needs us to experience itself in material form.

It needs us, so it shows us. And so. The great forgetting happens when we lose our childhood and we start to identify ourselves as people, and we see ourselves as part of the environment, and we see ourselves as separate from our parents and our friends, et [00:10:00] cetera. So separation then becomes our modus operandi, right?

Right. And the idea of scarcity, but spirit is always there. So we are part of it. It's in us. So. We are made in the image of that, which means that consciousness, that seed of consciousness, it ends in us all the time, but we don't notice it because our ego self is the one that we generally make our decisions through, right?

So when we are inspired, it's a gift. It's a gift from spirit because we received it and it went ing. Mm-hmm. And that is the most profound time in our waking dream in daydreams. Mm-hmm. So at nighttime. I think it can be hard to sort out it. I'm not as interested in nighttime dreams, to be quite honest with you.
My hit about dreams Yeah. Was just guiding us to this. To this exactly. You can think about how we may think it's one thing, but then it's actually guiding us to the next thing. To the next thing. 'cause really I have not a particular interest in nighttime dreams. No, no, I get it. I get it. But I had this hit like, how [00:11:00] does spirit come into us and dreams, right?

And then boom, da da da da da. You know? And you know, when, when. When we get an inspiration, it comes as something. That we don't generate, it's not generated from us. And we know, Hmm. We feel that gift. We're like, oh, ding. Like the light bulb goes on. We feel something different, unique. The idea is there and then we, then we wanna follow it because it is sacred and there's a part of us, that spirit within us that, no, it came from source and we are meant to follow it as part of our destiny, and that is why.

The waking dream is so profound and important and should not be discarded or denied. Right. And that's when we get those hits about something that come unbidden. Usually when we're doing something completely mundane, like washing the dishes, right? Or being in the shower, going for a walk, right? Or working out.

All of a sudden, Boeing. And when we look at our nighttime dreams, 'cause we may as well look at that too, we then enter into that world of RAC consciousness, which is the consciousness of the [00:12:00] oracle that is existing in every one of us. The word rac oracular means. The Oracle. So ocular consciousness is in every single person.

It's the nature of intuition, right? So that's what it comes from. The fact that every single one of us has an inner oracle. Okay. You just do, right? Yeah. I think you called it a ding or I, I, what did you call it? Inner guide. That's it. Inner guidance. Inner. That's it. The not a intuition, right? It's that Well, you like to call it a ding.

Yeah. I mean, I go ding or ding, you get that? Or Boeing or Plunk? Plunk. You get a plunk. So that consciousness exists in every single person. That's why I create Oracle cards. I create them for average people to use for themselves, so they don't have to go and talk to somebody like me, right? 'cause in you is the answer, right?

So your dreams at night are symbols, metaphors, and they're like one big giant Oracle card reading oftentimes, right? Where you can sit down and go through it all and discover what's true, what's not true, what's meaningful, what's [00:13:00] not. But I'll be, but the daytime dream is the most powerful and most profound.

So the Boeing daytime dream, the Boeing daytime dream is really these hits of inspiration. Yeah. That we can get it randomly in the shower. Yeah. Walking on the street and that answer, our deepest desire to co-create something unique and interesting. So. Can I have an example of a Boeing daytime dream? Yes.

So I will tell you about your own boring. Tell me. Tell me, tell me, tell me. Well, you know, when you were saying in the hallway that an idea came to you to create something mm-hmm. It just came to you, and then you described that to me. Mm-hmm. That was that. It. I, right. It just came to you. It just came to me.

You remember you said that the way you said me to Logic came, said it doesn't have logic. It doesn't have reason. No. It rarely has logic or reason. It rarely has logic. Like the big Boeings in my life, I think have, I've often been like, really? Like, do I [00:14:00] really, do I need to do that? You know? Right. 'cause it doesn't always make sense.

No, often. But it's a calling. It's a direction and we all have a destiny. So every single one of us has that. We're we're born with that blueprint. What I do, what I've done for a living for the past 36 years or whatever, is to show people that blueprint, because we lose it. We forget it because we get all caught up in our wounds and our woundology, as Carolyn Mace likes to call it.

Mm-hmm. Or our trauma Big T, little T, the whole storyline. And we completely lose sight of the fact that we are here to actually create. Yeah. And we create. Something that is unique to us, and it's important, every single person's destiny is important because it's like one giant symphony and every note is important.

No one note is more important than the other. That right, so, so it's those dreams that those waking dreams, those boy plunk s moments are there to open that doorway back to our blueprint. Back to that, ah. I'm here to create. I'm [00:15:00] here to spread something into the world. I'm here to bridge the gap. I'm here to bring something meaningful because that's what life is for.

We're not here just to breathe air. Mm-hmm. You know, spirit wants to use us to experience itself. That's it itself, right there. I'm gonna repeat that. Spirit wants to use us to experience itself. Because they it. So we are spirit. We are spirit. We're having this human experience. Yeah. And our spirit came. We have an individual spirit.

We have an individual spirit in that, the human spirit that presides, that's the soul, right? The soul is unique, independent to each person. And if you could see that as an offshoot from the divine, it's still part of it. Imagine that there's strands. Yeah. It's the same. And it's the same. It's just a little version.

Micro, macro, right? It's it. Expression ex. It's an expression of the divine and divine. We are the, an expression of the divine when we remember in those moments. That's the great remembering the right. That's the great remembering. And I guess you might add, [00:16:00] and I might contribute that when we have a path of spiritual development Yeah.

In this human form. Mm-hmm. And not only just spiritual development, personal growth and development, because I think that is spiritual development. It is a hundred percent spiritual development and we commit to that. We actually really start to turn down the volume of the ego. Yeah. And raise the volume of the spirit that we are, which is creative creator.

Yeah. So when addiction, both of us share that history. Right. So I'm now 37 and a half years clean and sober one day at a time. Wood. But that's where it was for me, getting clean and sober. It was like I, it is the sublimation of the ego, 1000% surrendering that identity. The trauma identity, I'm done. And then, well, it'll still come up once in a while, but all of a sudden you become a new you.

You get that chance, you know, it's like we pay a high price to [00:17:00] sit in that chair. Yeah. But at the same time, the potentiality that's gifted back to us as a result of that, as I always say that. You know, the life I live now is my gift back. Yeah, you're living amends. Exactly. Yeah. And that's the personal growth.
So you can't separate spiritual growth and personal growth. You can't, no. And it and personal growth is spiritual development. That's correct.

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Anyone that's listening to dear Gabby, anyone who reads either of our books, they're on this journey of remembering, right? And I like to [00:21:00] say that we come here to unlearn fear and to remember the love, the spirit of who we are. And so if we accept that this journey, this life that we're living. It can be a lot more fun.

It can take a lot of pressure off. Yeah. Because it's much less about the outside conditioning. It's about the development of what we remember inside. Yes. And both end happens too. I think it's really important and I, I've heard you talk a lot about this, by the way. I just got a boy. I just got a boying.

You, you just got a boying. Okay. Because I'm writing this book and I wanna write a book now about remembering, so it's my book's called Self-Help. Yeah. And it's all about IFS. Yeah. And IFS, the Spirit is the Soul, the God Within Us, the Buddha Nature. That's Self With a Capital S. Yes, with a capital S. And what I want to, I just read a boy, I have to say it out loud, so don't forget it, to write a chapter called Remembering Self.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean it's, it is all about remembering, it's, it's about remembering the parts of us that we discarded, we've disowned, and when [00:22:00] my book The Map, which I published in 2010, I talked a lot about these three questions. Where am I, when am I, and who am I listening to? So we talked about all the different sub personalities that can come up when you don't give them a voice.

So this, which is very similar. Yeah. Yeah. Although, yeah, I mean this was a long time ago that I wrote that and now I'm seeing this all coming out in therapeutic models that is just so incredible. Yeah. Because it's so meaningful. Yeah. And it enables us to remember that we are not the voice that is just one of many of us.

That's right. And and that's right. And that we are thus self the sole with a capital s the soul self. Mm-hmm. So I always talk about the small self. And the soul self. Yeah. The small self is the ego mind. Right. The self that, that really is identified with trauma and it's identified with the stories of what we were, what happened, which is based on rehashing the past and keeps us in a place that doesn't enable us to be more than what we are.

And then, like you said, when you move past fear and into that sense of it's sense of wholeness. Mm-hmm. That's so incredible. [00:23:00] You know? What could we accomplish if we were there more? And we will go back and forth. I think it's a dance. It's a dance. It's a dance. 'cause look at the world. It's a big dance, right?

I mean, that exists. And this exists. Yeah. So how do we dance between the two? But I think it's important too, to remind people that you're not gonna just unlearn your fears overnight. No, because they're really strong. It's all that we're taught here in this physical form. But that the boings will guide you.

Yeah. The intuitive moments will be these strings of light that start to guide you towards a greater awakening. Yeah. And remembering a, remembering a hundred percent. And then you get excited about something like what you were talking about before. I get a Boeing every time I'm about to do an Oracle deck cause that's my 15th or 16th one.

Hmm. And I'm like, oh my God. Boeing, Boeing, Boeing. And all of a sudden I see pictures, images, I get feelings, I see things, and I'm like, okay, so. How will this [00:24:00] enhance another person's experience? Yeah. Because it's always about service. Yeah. Right. When you are in service, then you realize that your imagination is in service to your intuition.

Right. Your, your creativity is in service to source to the capital S It's not about you anymore. It's about what could I channel through me? And it's not even about channeling them. When people think the word channeling, they think of bringing through an entity or Right, right, right. We're always channeling.
We're always channeling when. We are listening to that intuitive voice. Yeah. And when we're temporarily suspending the beliefs of the world and leaning into and allowing, yeah. That spirit within us, I really think that to give the listener some concrete suggestions and guidance on how they can tap into this, develop that relationship, and it's not even a relationship.

Develop that. Self with a capital S. That intuition, that Boeing, that [00:25:00] inspiration, the source, the soul, whatever you refer to it, I think you said the right word. It is relationship. Yeah. It, it really is relationship because. The greatest suffering we have is our sense of separation from source from each other.

It is 1000% relationship. You bo it right from the be beginning. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It's a relationship to the highest part of ourselves. Like IFS even talks about the different voices. You have to acknowledge that there is a part of you you don't listen to because it's too foreign, because it doesn't, it doesn't tell you stories about yourself.

It knows you in such a way that. Says you could be more. And you're like, ah. You know what I mean? Mean? Yeah. We don't trust it. Don't trust it. That's right. Exactly. So it is about developing that and you start with meditation, like honest to God. I mean, you just start with quieting your mind and just letting yourself be present.

Mm-hmm. Even beyond mindfulness, there's a creative way to just sit with yourself and just, just be, yeah. You know, I actually [00:26:00] did that yesterday, Colette. I was. Feeling like I was getting to a place of burnout, a little bit of overwhelm, and I know that so well. Now I know that part of me that I don't want to let it become so extreme.

I wanna help it. Yeah. Help that part of me. Yeah. And so I was really unwinding it a bit and I noticed myself just relaxing and listening to music, and then I saw the flowers on the table and I just said. Do you know how Gabby just sit and listen to the music and look at the flowers and close your eyes and don't do anything?

Yeah. Just don't do anything. Yeah, because we so quickly wanna just look at the phone or mm-hmm. Go to the computer, be productive, and I meditate twice a day. I do transcendental meditation. There's lots of different forms of meditation. Yeah. That I love that I teach, but I think that the TM meditation for me is so grounding because I'm focused on a single pointed focus, which is this mantra. Yeah. And for 20 minutes, I will be in that mantra. What I have found is that by [00:27:00] developing this meditation practice for the past two decades, I have come to a place where I. Want it to be longer. Yeah. I, I'm like, oh, I don't wanna stop at the 20 minute mark.

And, and I don't set an alarm because that's not part of the practice, but I sometimes feel like, oh shit, I gotta set an alarm because it might keep going. And I really just wanna encourage the listener to recognize that beginning with a five minute practice, whether it's listening to one of your meditations or one of my meditations, or to just begin some guidance in that space.

It's just like any muscle. As you develop it and you nurture it, it becomes something that you long for, that you just crave. You crave it. Yes. It's like it's a medicine that you want. I know. I, when I, I actually started with GM years ago and did 45 minutes twice a day, so I didn't, I didn't do 20 minutes. I did 45 minutes.

Mm-hmm. Why? Because I'm an extremist. I know. You, you and I are loud, like we're like. And I had to be really productive, but it really helped me and I needed it. Like I needed it, like nobody's business. Yeah. And then I studied all different [00:28:00] types of meditation practices and I settled in on creating guided meditation practices because I found for me, I enjoyed them. Mm-hmm. So outside of my TM practice, I was like, oh, I loved the guided one because then I could just let the voice talk. Yeah. And I didn't even need to listen to it after a while. And I started with Shati Quane, remember that? Years ago? Lemme tell you something, Shati Quain was a very integral part of my career.

Me too. Right? Me too. Totally. Me too. I remember her little cassette that I had. The pink bubble technique. Totally. The pink bubble. The pink bubble. Yes. Because it was so simple. Simple. Yeah. I know. So I loved that. And I found because. I suffered so much from the production thing, like I need to produce, produce, produce, work, work, work.

And whether or not, because it's my parents were immigrants and no, it's an addict part. It's like, and, and also the addict part on top of it. But I was raised to see that you have to work hard. You have to do this. But yeah, there would nothing was enough or I wasn't enough. That really helped me just let go.

[00:29:00] And, and every once in a while I have that, but it's actually served me in a way. Yeah. But like you, I have to watch burnout. Yeah. And I'm sure a lot of listeners here suffer suffer. Oh, we're gonna do episode on burnout, right? Yeah. We're doing a whole episode on burnout and people are afraid to say that they are and they have to admit it.

And, and I will say something else too. Part of the burnout is the phone is, the social media thing is to be looking at, trying to get. Trying to get approval from strangers that don't count, like this whole social malaise that has happened as a result of that, especially for younger, oh God, younger generation.

I actually wanna use that as another concrete example of how to connect more deeply to the spirit of who you are, right? And your take a media diet intuition. It's actually those moments where maybe you wanna do some special time with your kid. I recommend. At least a half hour special time with your kid.

Yeah. Or you wanna do dinner with your partner, or you wanna just be looking at the flowers? Like I said, yes. Put the fucking phone in another room. [00:30:00] Yeah. Turn off the internet, put it away. The other day I went and visited some friends and I put the phone in the car and I didn't take it out for hours and I was so present.

Yes. I wasn't just taking pictures. I was with them and with my own. Energy and it was something I hadn't done in a really long time. Spend multiple hours without your phone, leave it behind. That is a way also to develop your intuition. That's right. It's not by being plugged in. It's by being unplugged.

Unplug it. Unplug it. Meditate. Play with Oracle cards. Learn a technique, use a pendulum, something that you can just allow yourself. It is the art of allowing to, to just allow whatever comes through to come through or nothing at all. Yeah. And then when you've stopped trying to make anything happen, all of a sudden boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

That's what happens. Unlocks it. It unlocks it when you stop trying to make everything happen. Yeah, it starts to happen. Like when you said about [00:31:00] being present, I thought, I thought that was really profound what you just said about bringing yourself there, being present. Yeah, because it is in that moment of presence, and presence can be attention to another person.

That's also when you really can tune into that person. Because you are present to them and their energy. Yeah. As opposed to being, trying to escape all the time. Yeah. You know, like, what's there? What's there? I'm gonna go here, go there. That's not a way. I'll tell you the difference because people sometimes mistake their developing their instinct from their intuition.

Yeah. There's a huge differentiator there. Yeah. Instinct will come so that you're looking for the potential threats. That's a stress response. Yeah. So your instinct for survival, that's not what this is. The intuition comes. When you're safe and when you are a hundred percent present to whatever there is, including something that feels uncomfortable, like an argument, you're actually safe.

I love that. That distinction I will add or ask. Sure. In those moments when we have an instinct. To [00:32:00] do something to be safe. Right. So it's like, oh, get outta that room. Leave that thing. You definitely need to do that. That's, that's instinct. But wouldn't you argue that that's instinct and intuition? Because sometimes we're being guided in those moments?

Yes. Those like, get the fuck out of this room. They partner. They partner. You're in. Like, it's like when you meet somebody that looks great mm-hmm. On the outside. Mm-hmm. And, and ticks all the boxes, you know, also on their resume, but you just know you are in the presence of something that's. Very dangerous for you.

Mm-hmm. You gotta get up and go. Your intuition is that, and then your instinct kicks in. Yep. But the reason I brought up the distinction between the two is that a lot of people now think, oh, I'm so intuitive. I do this. And I'm like, intuition is a softer sound. Instinct is out. But yeah, you're right.

There's that. There is a dynamic relationship. They come together, they, they can come together. Yeah. But if you really wanna know where you're heading, instinct is not. Is is intuition shows you the map, the muscle that you want to exercise. Yeah. Is is the intuitive muscle. Okay? And you'll do that [00:33:00] by learning how to use Oracle cards, for example, or other systems like you meditate.

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I wanna do the Oracle cards. [00:38:00] Now you can ask a question. So first of all, so I could ask the Oracle cards a question, is that how you would, you'd ask me the question, you the question, and then you would pull the card? Aren't they gorgeous? The little creatures are the, aren't they spectacular? They're the coolest thing I've ever seen.

You created them all right. No, this is not my art. This is the art. But you use a lot of your own art. Yeah. I, I will. My next deck is all my own art. I saw it. It's stunning. Yeah. No, this one is Joel Nakamura. Okay. Who is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant artist in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a Japanese American and he's taught at some of the most exquisite art schools around the world.

Cool. And he wanted to do an Oracle deck and knew a friend of mine and they had breakfast together and I just told her, I said, I'm having the hardest time finding somebody that can do this neo primitive style. She goes, oh, I'm sitting beside the guy that created the neo primitive style. That's crazy. I'm like, you are.

He's would love to do an Oracle deck. Anytime you hear yourself say that, that's a, that's so crazy. That's a dream, right? That's annoying and whatever. It's, oh my God, that's so crazy. Like just now when I was like wanting to talk about dreams and then the dream Oracle Weaver deck is, yeah. Dream Weaver Oracle deck is right here.

Okay, so the [00:39:00] question, so sometimes you can ask the deck a question if you don't have Colette in the room. Well, that's why you want the deck, is you don't wanna have me in the room all the time. Yes. But you have me now and the deck so that I, this I got both this. You got both. Okay. So I can ask you a question.

That cannot have a yes or no answer. Okay, cool. That sounds great. Great. It's like, tell me information about the situation. Okay. Okay. I want to know some information about what's my highest and best right here, right now. I. In my life. In your life right now. So that's a very broad, too broad. So no, no, but this could be right now today.

And I wonder too, that we're asking a question that some of your listeners would identify with also. Okay, great. Okay, so, right, so where are you in your, in your path? Where am I in my path right now? Your path? Yeah, let's do that first. That, and then we can get a more specific question. Okay, cool. Since you have me here, I, I'm taking take advantage.

Full advantage. This is my moment people. Oh my God. I'm so lucky. All right. Here we are. [00:40:00] What the Winter Spirits know. Oh, I knew you were gonna get that card. Of course. Yours, I think. Oh my God. Okay, so what the winter spirits know is all about putting things on ice and not going too fast forward. Yeah. It's about slowing down and allowing dreaming to happen.

It is the card that talks about a, allowing your dreams to settle into you. Mm-hmm. So that you can step forward into your destiny in a way that is cyclically correct for you. Hmm. So this is when, like winter. Brings you into the dream time. That's what this is. It's so funny. That's the only card that that talks about, by the way, in the whole deck.

That's so funny. Why are we surprised? But it is about cultivating the dream and allowing it to come to you. In those slower moments, when you're not rushing and you're not trying to create something and you're not pushing the river forward, it's when the ice comes in, slows you down, gives you an opportunity to also put things on ice that aren't moving fast enough and they're not meant to cause you're saying, okay.

I'm gonna put those aside for now and allow this to occur for me. Yeah. But it is about slowing down. Yeah. I will absolutely take that. I put this back in the deck, put it back, and then shuffle 'em again and ask me more specific questions. So now that we know that, that card, so if somebody were to get that deck and do it for themselves, they would ask a similar question, where am I at right now?

So that's kind of like, let's orient, where am I? Hmm. So now you just ask basically, where am I? Now we wanna know. Okay. So if I'm here, if this is my starting point. Where am I heading? Yeah, you could do that too, right? Because everybody right now wants more certainty. That's why you look at Oracle cards as a method of determining where the choice that you make will like at from the vantage point you're at the vantage point of the winter spirit.

Right? Okay. So that's that. So now from here, where am I heading? That could be my next question. Yeah. Like what would be the next question is where am I heading from here? Where am I heading from here, Colette and this beautiful Oracle deck. Let me see. [00:42:00] Even wisdom needs to rest. Oh my God. Well, you're not going anywhere right now.

That's, that sounds pretty right, Josh. That's trippy. Yep, yep, yep. Okay, so holiday is where you go next. Yeah, it's all about from the winter spirits now. It's like, you might think, okay, well, but I'll keep one thing outta the fridge. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's saying stop it and then it, but it's like, no, you're not.

You really have to also allow the ideas to percolate in you. Sometimes we can stare at something too much or try to force an idea to come out of us. Like when you're writing a book, for example, this is saying like, no, no, no, you're just gonna walk away now for a bit. Great. And then wait till it comes in again.

Okay. So even wisdom needs to rest those whales and then all the memory that, because every possible thought concept, potentiality of humanity exists in the hidden realms. And it's saying to you, if you rest more will come to you. Yeah. It's very, very in alignment with what I've been intuitively. Yeah.[00:43:00] 

Feeling is just this feeling of do less, do less, do less. And even today I had a marketing call scheduled before this, I canceled the call. I said, reschedule for Friday. I need to be in my creative day. Yeah, I can't just do both all the time. I can't be toggling all the time. But that's not just for today because we ask for heading.

This is in this short time. So how about. Now we can actually ask a timeframe and then we could also ask about something specific. Okay. If you want. Sure. So you can ask about if you want. I do. Okay. Uh, without giving too much away. Yeah. A timeframe. And let me think about what I wanna ask. That's not too personal on my, on your podcast.

Podcast for millions of people to hear, I would probably say. Or how about, what does Spirit want me to know? Right? That's right. Kind of where I was going. Yeah. Yeah. How about that? Yeah. What direction do I need right now? Yeah, what does Spirit want me to know right now? Right now? Besides what it already told you, right.

Besides what I already know. Watch. It's gonna say sleep. [00:44:00] It's gonna say Just chill the hell out. Chill the, okay. Yeah. What do you want me to know right now? Yeah. Yeah, right now. Okay. Let's see, because it, it was pretty clear when the grit became a pearl. This is, seems like it's pretty spot on at the moment for me.

Yes. I dunno what that means. So this is, I can tell you exactly what it means without being too specific. So grit is the sum total of our. Pain, right? When our grit, the grit comes and it's, it's our life experience and it is not the fun stuff. It's the stuff that, that, the drama, the, well, it's, it can be drama, but it could just your own internal.

Suffering over things from your past over betrayals, over small things that have added up that you haven't dealt with. So these are the things that you've been shoving aside, right? So that's really that resentments, those types of things, like clean house with that. The pearl is the gift, the valuable treasure that comes [00:45:00] out of those things because our greatest gifts don't come from our happy joys free moments.

They come from our shadow. That's why I'm a big proponent of shadow work. I'm not the love and light brigade kind of person. Like people expect because I'm an intuitive and I create cardex and all this stuff, that I'm gonna be all love and light and I'm so not, I'm like love light and shadow kids that you, if you don't do the shadow, you have to find the light.

Absolutely. So that is asking you. First of all, to remind yourself of how far you've come. Yeah. And slow down so that you can, which you're already doing the slowing down part. Yes. Just like really clean out some of that stuff. This is exactly what's happening in my life right now. Yeah. One more. Yeah, sure.

Okay. One more. Don't you love this guy? I mean, this is, she has me now, right? She has me like my dream. This is my dream pinned like a butterfly. Let's, let's do a general one. Let's do one for you, but let's do one for the listeners. Yeah. Let's do, how do we deal with all this shit? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly, exactly.

What's going on in the world? Let's deal with that. Okay. Maybe can I just pull random? Yeah, pull random. Okay. Surfing [00:46:00] Rainbow on the moon. Right? So that is about not being so serious. Don't take yourself so seriously either, and even don't take the grit we talked about. So seriously, it's about having a sense of humor about this whole thing.

Mm-hmm. Okay. You know, it's like getting be, be gay, joyful, joyful, joyful, gay, funny. Like just go like, oh my God, I can't believe I made this so serious. Okay. It's, it's kind of that a little bit too, like Yeah, do the shadow. Then go have some fun. I love it. That's so great. Maybe that's what we're gonna have fun at dinner.

Very accurate. Very accurate. Yes. Let's, let's, here's what I'd love us to do so we don't have a lot of time, I think for all the listeners, 'cause I know. I know your particular fans and listeners are interested in how they manifest reality and you know, how can they create the life that they really desire?

That's right. You know, in times of terrible chaos, 'cause this is the most important time that we have going on, on the planet right now. The entire, the entire species of human beings are undergoing a huge shift. We're in that. What Catherine ponder, that [00:47:00] phenomenal unity church minister, the metaphysical teacher, she talks about chemicalization, where you choose this better reality, but then it looks like everything's going to pot.

Right? And that's the moment all of us are going through. But then what do we do individually about our special dreams and desires and destiny amongst all of this crazy chaos? Right? So I think we could, for your listeners, choose two cards. Like what does everybody listening need to know about? Being able to have the resilience to live in both.

Okay. Is that a good question? I was thinking we should pull two cards anyway because I wanted to pull one and I wanted you to pull one. Okay, good. You pull one? Yeah. Yeah. And then I'll pull one. So mine could be about anything you want for them. What I want for them, I want to know what Spirit wants for them.

Great. Okay, so here we go. And that's the simpler way of saying all this stuff that I said, which is not too complicated. Okay. Here it's Holy Spirit want for these people. This is a funky card. What's it called? If the taste is sweet. And good. Don't. Yes, so. So don't focus. If [00:48:00] the taste is sweet and good, we work hard for.

Our lives. Right? Everybody does what no matter where they are in the world, no matter. Mm-hmm. No matter what resources they have access to, whatever. Life is hard. We work hard for life. We work hard for joy. Yeah. So remember that. Don't keep focused on the chaos and the drama and the all of that stuff. Take your attention away from that.

Don't deny it, or just try to sidestep it. Or bypass it. Acknowledge it. Recognize it. Yes, that's there. But what about the joy and all the juice? That's also there. You have to make space for your attention. Our negative bias is gonna take us right away into like, oh my God, we're not safe. No. Oh my God. How much joy do I have staring at that flower in my house and listening to music?

This is exactly what this show stands for. Yeah. That's what people come here for. That's right. So there we go. Wow. What a good card for them. Here you go. There you go. Okay. That's actually good. It's gonna get a jumper or something. See what else, what else? What else does Spirit have to say? Time to feed the [00:49:00] hungry heart.

Mm. Put a cute card. Time to feed the hungry heart. Don't deny yourself. Be kind to yourself. I. Hungry. We are hungry for so many things. We are hungry to be seen. We're hungry to love and be loved. We are hungry to know that we count. We are hungry for goodness. We are hungry for peace. I'm hungry for nuanced conversations where I'm not walking on eggshells all the time.

Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? I'm hungry for complexity. And I think everybody listening comes to you for those things too. Hmm. So trust that your hunger that you have is your soul's hunger. It's not your ego, it's your. Spirit that wants us to be connected and to get out of this division that we're all in.
So recognize that it's there, but then ask yourself, how can I make you know my relationships better?

How can I be present to life on life's terms? As well as, again, this is about the juice and what brings me bliss because that actually has to count. [00:50:00] Yeah. It can't all be about what do I give to others?
It's like, what do I love? Sounds like both cards play really well together. Yeah. It's like, how can I just have a better time? Yeah, that's right. Yes, and and leaning into that, and I think that that is what people come here for. That's right. Truly. Well, thank you for having me. I just. Could sit here and riff on the most heady shit with you for hours.

I know that this is gonna be a wildly successful episode because Thank you. People really want to hear more of this. I also just wanted to acknowledge you as a woman who really walks her talk. Thank you. You really genuinely walk your talk. You are the pearl. Thank you, and it's been a lot of grit and lots and, and are always, and we'll continue you to be, to, to shine that pearl.

Thank you. And I just am, I'm just proud to be your friend. Love. I love you, love. Thank you. This was so cool. This was great. We have to do more. Thank you.[00:51:00] 

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